And so he had to go.
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Wow…there is nothing like a scorned ex National Security advisor who got WH lawyers involved and subsequently was shut out of any foreign or nat sec policy decision making.
Fact : Bolton and Pompeo were not on speaking terms at the end.
And Bolton I imagine has had a vendetta and real concerns about how shifty this administration has been. He most definitely has been feeding the press…and maybe the 2nd, 3rd or 4th whistle blower.
These guys are going down…
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Bolton is a notoriously vindictive, aggressive bully. He won’t take being forced out lying down. He’s a despicable man… and precisely who Trump and his clown squad should not have crossed. You knew sooner or later he’d do that to somebody as vengeful as himself. Surround yourself with the “best people”… and that’s what you get.
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Follow the money…Giuliani’s so hooked into these sketchy characters.
The businessman, Lev Parnas, is a close associate of Giuliani and was involved in his effort to investigate Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination.
Giuliani said Parnas’ company, Boca Raton-based Fraud Guarantee, whose website says it aims to help clients “reduce and mitigate fraud”, engaged Giuliani Partners, a management and security consulting firm, around August 2018. Giuliani said he was hired to consult on Fraud Guarantee’s technologies and provide legal advice on regulatory issues.
Federal prosecutors are “examining Giuliani’s interactions” with Parnas and another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman, who was also indicted on campaign finance charges, a law enforcement source told Reuters on Sunday.
The New York Times reported last week that Parnas had told associates he paid Giuliani hundreds of thousands of dollars for what Giuliani said was business and legal advice. Giuliani said for the first time on Monday that the total amount was $500,000.
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“GOP ‘darn lucky’ Fiona Hill deposition wasn’t public”
Congressman Denny Heck on the nine-hour deposition of Fiona Hill & her near perfect memory: “I can say in all candor, that after 1000s of hours of hearings, I have never had a witness that came across as substantive per minute as she did.”
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Rudy Giuliani admits ‘Fraud Guarantee’ paid him $500,000 to work for indicted associate
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Trump’s impeachment barricade begins to crumble
Key witnesses are ignoring Trump and delivering bombshell testimony in Democrats’ Ukraine investigation.
Donald Trump’s impeachment blockade has collapsed.
The president’s former top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill — the first White House official to cooperate in Democrats’ investigation of the Ukraine scandal — has sketched for lawmakers a trail of alleged corruption that extends from Kiev to the West Wing. In dramatic testimony on Monday, she roped insome of Trump’s top advisers as witnesses to the unfolding controversy.
And on Tuesday, a senior State Department official, George Kent, appeared on Capitol Hill to testify about his knowledge of the episode despite an attempt by administration lawyers to block him, according to a source working on the impeachment inquiry. The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for his testimony Tuesday morning, and Kent complied.
It’s the latest evidence that the White House’s stonewalling against congressional requests for documents and testimony is crumbling — and Democrats are feeling a new sense of momentum.
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On Wednesday, a top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who resigned abruptly last week — intends to testify before lawmakers.
On Thursday, comes Gordon Sondland, the EU ambassador whose text messages revealed by lawmakers indicated he was aware of efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden. Sondland is reportedly ready to deflect any blame on to Trump about whether there was any quid pro quo.
Congressional investigators on Friday will hear from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper, who oversees Russia- and Ukraine-related matters at the Pentagon.
Despite the series of breakthroughs, Democrats will still face resistance from the White House to some of their high-level requests.
When asked whether Trump’s budget office planned to comply with a Tuesday subpoena deadline for documents, a senior administration official did not say, instead pointing to a White House letter last week that deemed the House impeachment probe "unconstitutional."
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Impeachment Investigators Question George Kent, State Dept. Ukraine Expert
The procession of high-ranking witnesses to the House’s impeachment inquiry continued apace on Tuesday, as George P. Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of Ukraine policy, arrived on Capitol Hill to face questions from investigators about his knowledge of the widening Ukraine scandal.
Mr. Kent, who appeared behind closed doors despite the State Department directing him not to do so, raised concerns to colleagues early this year about the pressure being directed at Ukraine by Mr. Trump and his private lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to pursue investigations into Mr. Trump’s political rivals, according to people familiar with Mr. Kent’s warnings.
As far back as March, they said, Mr. Kent was pointing to Mr. Giuliani’s role in what he called a “disinformation” campaign intended to use a Ukrainian prosecutor to smear targets of the president. Those included former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Marie L. Yovanovitch, then the United States ambassador to Ukraine, and Ukrainians who disseminated damaging information during the 2016 campaign about Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
Mr. Kent, wearing a three-piece suit and bow tie, entered the obscured chambers of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday morning to kick off another jam-packed day for investigators. Lawmakers are scheduled to return to the Capitol from a two-week recess later Tuesday, and Democrats will huddle to compare notes on the direction of the inquiry. Separately, the committees leading the investigation had set a series of crucial deadlines on Tuesday for key witnesses and executive branch agencies to hand over relevant documents.
Subpoenas and Requests for Evidence in the Trump Impeachment Inquiry
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House Democratic leaders are reaching out to members in swing districts to gauge their support for an official vote on the House floor to open an impeachment inquiry, two sources told NBC News.
Leadership is contacting the most vulnerable members first and then will discuss with the larger caucus as early as tonight at their 6:00 pm ET caucus meeting.
House Republicans and the White House have been demanding an official vote to open an inquiry. The White House has said it won’t cooperate with Democrats demands until they do.
While this would be a significant development to make the inquiry more official, Democrats have argued that it is not necessary as deemed by the Constitution.
Republicans would like a vote to officially open the inquiry because it could give them more rights, including subpoena power.
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President Donald’s Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani told ABC News on Tuesday he is not complying with a congressional subpoena.
Giuliani told ABC News “if they enforce it, then we will see what happens.”
Giuliani went on to say he is no longer retaining the services of Jon Sale, who was acting as his attorney for this matter. Giuliani said that if Congress seeks to enforce a subpoena, then he will retain counsel.
As part of his final acts as his attorney, Sale sent a letter to Congress on Tuesday replying to the subpoena Giuliani was sent.
Tuesday was the deadline for Giuliani to comply with a wide-ranging subpoena from three of the House committees working on the growing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
ABC your site looks like clickbait internet trash. You should do something about that, it’s almost completely unreadable.
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I was not sure if this had been posted or not…from NYT
A Guide to Impeachment
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- What Impeachment Is: Impeachment is charging a holder of public office with misconduct. Here are answers to [seven key questions ](How the Impeachment Process Works - The New York Times
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- What the Accusation Is: President Trump is accused of breaking the law by pressuring the president of Ukraine to look into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a potential Democratic opponent in the 2020 election. A second person, this one with “firsthand knowledge” of Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, came forward and is now protected as a whistle-blower.
- What Was Said: The White House released a reconstructed transcript of Mr. Trump’s call to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
- A Visual Timeline: Here are the key figures and dates as Mr. Trump and his allies pressured Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.
- Why Now: A whistle-blower complaint filed in August said that White House officials believed they had witnessed Mr. Trump abuse his power for political gain. Here are 8 takeaways from the complaint.
- How Trump Responds: The president said the impeachment battle would be “a positive” for his re-election campaign. Mr. Trump has repeatedly referred to the whistle-blower as “crooked” and condemned the news media reporting on the complaint. At the beginning of October, Mr. Trump publicly called on China to examine Mr. Biden as well.
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Speaker Pelosi is about to make a STATEMENT on IMPEACHMENT - she has met with her caucus. Be on the lookout 
…more than likely just before the Ohio Democratic Debates taking place at 5p PST/8p EST
LIVE
Rep Schiff made comments too
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got it thanks
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Cross-posting for the timeline 
I’ll update the timeline first thing tomorrow, summary is pretty much done I just have to double check it against what matt dragged in. 
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good, why take a vote when you don’t need to
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Bah, Someone please find this, I’m already running late to my class.
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Got it @Pet_Proletariat
A SDNY request for records from former Rep Pete Sessions by subpoena. It is meant to coordinate the information about Igor and Lev’s contribution to Sessions re-election campaign.
Former Rep. Pete Sessions subpoenaed by grand jury investigating Giuliani and associates
Oct. 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m. PDT
A federal grand jury in New York has issued a subpoena to former Texas congressman Pete Sessions seeking records and other information on his interactions with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and two Giuliani associates charged last week with a scheme to funnel foreign money to U.S. politicians, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
The subpoena seeks records about Sessions’s dealings with Giuliani and two business associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who before their arrest had been helping Giuliani investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden.
Parnas and Fruman were charged last week with violating campaign finance law in an ongoing investigation that has ensnared the president’s personal lawyer because of his relationship with the two men. The subpoena indicates the investigation remains active, with investigators keen to determine whether Giuliani committed any wrongdoing.
A spokesman for Sessions, a Republican from Texas, said in a statement: “Mr. Sessions is cooperating with the US Attorney from the Southern District of New York and will be providing documents to their office related to this matter over the next couple of weeks as requested.”
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan declined to comment. Giuliani did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
and WSJ - Subpoena is all about Giuliani’s actions in this imbroglio.
The subpoena seeks documents related to Mr. Giuliani’s business dealings with Ukraine and his involvement in efforts to oust the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv, as well as any interactions between Mr. Sessions, Mr. Giuliani and four men who were indicted last week on campaign-finance and conspiracy accounts, the people said.
Mr. Sessions’ knowledge of Mr. Giuliani’s dealings is a primary focus of the subpoena, the people said. Mr. Giuliani has denied wrongdoing and said he has had no indication his actions are being investigated by prosecutors.
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The subpoena of the former congressman offers a window into the investigation by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office into the business dealings of Mr. Giuliani in Ukraine, including his finances, meetings and work for a city mayor there. Investigators have examined his bank records and have questioned witnesses about him since at least August.
The probe comes as House Democrats continue to interview former and current administration officials and others in their impeachment inquiry focusing on efforts by Mr. Trump, Mr. Giuliani and others to press Ukraine to mount investigations that could benefit the president politically. Among other things, they wanted Ukrainian officials to investigate activities by former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential 2020 election rival to Mr. Trump, and his son Hunter Biden, who was on the board of an energy company in Ukraine. No evidence has emerged that the Bidens, who have denied wrongdoing, have done anything improper.
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Giuliani’s Response
From NY Daily News - hometown paper for Giuliani
Giuliani — who ran the the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan in the 1980s — said prosecutors had not contacted him as of late Tuesday, and called the inquiry targeting him “strange.”
“I would find it very unusual that they’re carrying out an investigation by leaks,” Giuliani told The News, referring to a string of news reports over the past week on the ongoing investigation. “It would seem to me that it’s not the type of investigation the Southern District carries out, and I have to find out what’s going on."
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